A Recital by Pianist Frank Lévy

This recital is part of the two-day Dorothy TaubmanPiano Festival at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University.

For further information, contact David Witten at973-652-4217wittend@mail.montclair.edu.

Pianist Frank Lévy has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as an artist of rare poetic insight and communicative powers. A semi-finalist in the Leeds and Clara Haskil international piano competitions, Frank Lévy has aninternational career as a recitalist performing on many of the world’s great stages, including the Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Gusman Hall in Miami, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, The Gardner Hall in Salt Lake City, Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile and the Stadthaussaal in Winterthur. He has performed under the batons of Louis Langrée, Mehli Mehta, Paul Dunkel, David Josefowitz, Libi Lebel, Cornelia Kodkani-Laemmli, Ya-Hui Wang, Martin Stüder and other conductors.

Mr. Lévy is recording the complete piano works of Schubert and Brahms for the Canadian label, Palexa. His recordings and live performances have been broadcast by WQXR in New York City, the BBC in London, the RSR in Switzerland, the CBC in Canada and the Shanghai TV in China.

Award-winning teacher, Frank Lévy has been on the piano faculty of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division for 13 years. Currently, Mr. Lévy is on the piano faculty in the DMA program of the City University of New York Graduate Center and an Artist/Teacher at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College in New York City.

Frank Lévy lived in New York City for over 20 years. In 2011, the Lévy family moved to San Francisco. Since then Frank has performed as a soloist and with other musicians, including Viviana Guzman, Ben Simon and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and at numerous local venues, including theCampbell Hall at Stanford, the Beethoven Center at San Jose State University, Palo Alto OFJCC, the Old First Church in San Francisco, among others.

Frank Lévy has given numerous lectures, lecture-recitals and master classes at universities, conservatories and music festivals around the world. His recent lectures include “The Art of Practicing: From Concept to Sound,” “Schubert and the Suspension of Time,” “Musical Offerings for a Monument:Masterpieces by Beethoven, Liszt and Schumann,” “Practicing Piano Creatively” and “The School of Piano: Understanding the Interaction between the Piano Mechanism and the Human Body.”

Mr. Lévy is also known for his children and youth programs. In 2012, Mr. Lévy played a children’s concert at the Palo Alto Jewish Community Center titled “Classical Music Greats for Children” in which he explored the theme of childhood. This fun concert, led with delightful anecdotes, attracted a packedaudience and received high acclaim from music lovers of all ages.

Frank Lévy, who grew up in Switzerland, entered the Geneva Conservatory at the age of fifteen and earned the bachelor’s and master’s degrees studying with renowned pianist and pedagogue Louis Hiltbrand, and the doctorate in performance studying with Maria Tipo. After winning the Kiefer-HablitzelPrize, Frank Lévy went to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory, from where he received the Artist Diploma. He studied collaborative piano with Samuel Sanders and Margo Garrett in the Professional Studies Program at the Juilliard School, where he also worked with Emanuel Ax.Mr. Lévy also studied with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris, Dorothy Taubman in New York, Maria Curcio, Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia in London.